Miter-box.



E. A. SCHADE & C. BODMER.

MITER BOX. 1,01 8,319. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII l' Patented Jan. 2,1912,

"f gvi UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMUND A. SCHADE AND CHRISTIAN BODIVIER, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT,

ASSIGNORS TO THE STANLEY RULE & LEVEL COMPANY, 0F BRITAIN, CON NECTICUT,A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT. i

MITER-BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application iled August 18, 1911.

Patented Jan. 2,1912.

Serial No. 644,875.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, EDMUND A. SCHADE and CHRISTIAN BODMER, citizens ofthe United States, residing at New Britain, county of Hartford, State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMiter-Boxes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

Our invention relates to an improved adjusting device for saw carriersand guides for miter boxes.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of such partsof a miter box and saw carrier as are necessary to an understanding ofour invention, Fig. 2 is a front elevation partly in section. Fig. 3 isa section taken on the plane at right angles to the plane of the sectionof Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a view of a detail. Fig. 5 is a front elevationpartly in section of certain parts shown in Fig. 1.

l represents the forward end of the swinging arm of a miter box. The sawguide and carrier is mounted on this arm and includes a foot 2, whichpreferably has a tapered projection 3 which wedges into acorrespondingly tapered hole in the end of the arm 1, being held thereinby a screw 4.

5 5 represent the two rods of the guide and carrier upon which isusually mounted to slide up and down, the carrier element proper, thesame being indicated at 6, Fig. l, and which carrier element may be ofany well known construction. The rods 5 5 are rigidly secured in a block7 which snugly fits in a vertical transverse slot in the upper end ofthe foot 2. The lower front edge of the block 7 is preferably beveled asindicated, at 8.

9 is a pivot screw passing through the foot 2 and through the block 7,and upon which said block 7 may rock.

10 1Oa are adjusting pins which are screw-threaded and carried by thefoot 2 at opposite sides of the pivot 9. The inner ends of the screws l0l0a are preferably tapered to engage the beveled wall 8 of the block 7.By adjusting the screws 10 10a forward and back respectively, the block7 may be tilted in the foot piece 2, thereby adjusting the uprightposition of the guide, whereby exactly the vertical position may beacquired. By this simple adjusting device, it is possible to correctlyposition the saw guide and carrier even though the foot piece, from onecause or another, is not so positioned in the arm l as to itselfguarantee the vertical position of the rods 5 5 of the guide. Since manycauses are responsible, in constructions of this character, for thefaulty positioning of saw guides, it is our aim to provide a simplemeans whereby, if from any cause, the saw guide is found not to bepositioned accurately, such position may be corrected easily andquickly. The fit of the block 7 may be so snug between the walls of thefoot 2 that the pivot screw 9 may, after adjustment, be set up to clampthe two opposite sides of the carrier rigidly upon the block 7.

While we have shown the adjusting device as applied to the front end ofthe arm l, it is obvious that a similar adjusting device may beprovidedfor the saw guide and carrier mounted on the rear end of said arm.

What we claim is:

An adjusting device for miter box saw guides and carriers comprising afoot piece having a transverse slot in the upper side thereof formingtwo4 clamping walls, a block arranged in said slot and bearing againstsaid clamping walls, said block being spaced apart from the bottom ofsaid slot, a combined clamping and pivot screw passing freely throughone of said clamping walls and through said block and screwing into theother clamping wall, an adjusting screw on each side of said combinedpivot and clamping screw, said adjusting screws operating to tilt saidblock in said foot piece to the desired degree, and saw carrier andguide mechanism carried by said block.

' EDMUND A. SCHADE. CHRISTIAN BODMER. Witnesses:

L. E. CLEMoNs, J. M. HANCE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. C.

